How do you use these Engineer tips in planning?
Never:  Never use it: 
Try:  Might try it.
Use:  Use it as needed
Tell: Tell it to people who could use it

Never Try Use Tell

Write your plan. Don't bother your brain with paperwork.

       

What cues will you be watching for?

       

Your plan links short-term goals to long-term motivation.

       

Concretize.  Use words that say what you would experience.

       

Are you planning?  Or just wishing?

       

What will you need to see to know how the plan is working?

       

How will you know when you’re done?

       
Break a big project into joblets, with bite-sized sub-goals.         

Have you set check points?

       
The snake that you see is never the one that bites you.        
If you don't have a plan, you don't have a goal.  You just have a wish.        

Who is going to help you?  What will they get out of it?

       

Use joblets to celebrate small successes. 

       

If you aren't ready to plan, go for a trial run.

       

Use a joblets to track your progress toward big goals

       

What will happen as you start to carry out your plan?

       

Use joblets to connect little goals to big goals.

       
Mark this on 4 weekends, with different marks.  Notice changes. 
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